Enrollment's Up at Guilford College, Many More Students Have High School Educations, Sept. 28, 1921

Enrollment Shows Gain. . . Largest Number Students in Dozen Years and Largest Number of High School Graduates in History of College. . . Promise Banner Year

At the end of the second week of the college 229 students have registered. This is the greatest number for the second Saturday since 1908m when the total registration figures for the whole year was 275. The following gives an interesting comparison with registration figures during the last dozen years.

Students Registered During the First 12 Days Each Year Since 1908

1908 234

1909 227

1910 226

1911 209

1912 220

1913 226

1914 223

1915 199

1916 204

1917 159

1918 132

1919 202

1920 214

1921 229

A more striking fact revealed by the registration figures is the change in the ratios of new to told students and the ratio of new students who are high school graduates to the total number of new students. The figures for this year show that 135, 59 per cent of the total enrollment, are old students. And in 1914 the ratio was 56 per cent, in 1920 it was 50 per cent. In 1919, due to the large number of old students who had their education interrupted during the war period and were seizing the first opportunity to return to their Alma Mater, the ratio was almost identical to this year. More significant is the increasing number of new students who are high school graduates. Of the new students who had registered at this time in 1914 only 30.6 per cent held high school diplomas. In 1919 the ratio was 40.2 per cent, while this year the figure has taken the sudden bound to 62.8 per cent. This more than any other single fact augurs well for the future of Guildford College. With an increasing number of well prepared students the mortality in the Freshman Class should be very materially reduced and the consequent larger enrollment in the upper classes will soon solve the problem of filling the dormitories.

The average age of the students is almost the same as last year, 18.4 years. The number of students under 17 is only eight owing largely to the action of the faculty last spring abolishing the more elementary courses in the preparatory department.

The records of church affiliations indicate that almost half of the students enrolled this year are members of the Society of Friends. Almost half of the remainder belong to one or the other of the Methodist churches.

The distribution by counties is very similar to last year, Guilford far in the lead with Randolph and Alamance following in order.

The Enrollment by Counties

Guilford, 69

Randolph, 23

Alamance, 21

Forsyth, 11

Stokes, 11

Yadkin, 10

Perquimans, 9

Rockingham, 8

Northampton, 6

Wayne, 6

Caswell, 5

Davie, 5

Surry, 5

Davidson, 3

Duplin, 3

Alexander, 2

Chatham, 2

Iredell, 2

Moore, 2

Montgomery, 2

Scotland, 2

Other Counties, 11

Other States, 11

The Enrollment by Denominations

Society of Friends, 106

Methodist Episcopal, 52

Methodist Protestant, 5

Presbyterian, 15

Baptist, 13

Moravian, 3

Others, 5

No Affiliation, 30

Total, 229

From The Guilfordian, Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C., Sept. 28, 1921